{"id":2590,"date":"2014-02-25T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2018-09-21T16:39:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T15:39:36","slug":"sideways-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/sideways-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Sideways thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2592\" alt=\"IMG_6655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6655.png\" width=\"689\" height=\"600\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6655.png 689w, https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6655-320x279.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>How to install Snow Leopard on your laptop when your DVD player won&#8217;t read the disk<\/h1>\n<p>Yes folks I could have copied the DVD to a DMG disk image and installed the 10.6.3 upgrade via a 8GB USB stick, or I could of installed the upgrade via a network using Apple&#8217;s illusive Remote Install software, but no&#8230;\u00a0 I just decided to do a bit of sideways thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Cleaning the DVD with washing-up liquid and hot water followed by a blast with the children&#8217;s hair drier also seemed to help.<\/p>\n<p>I found that turning the laptop around the right way every now again helped kick the DVD back into action after it went quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t try this at home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2602\" alt=\"laptop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-content\/uploads\/laptop.png\" width=\"689\" height=\"788\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;or this, which also worked on another laptop of mine which was suffering from the &#8216;Mac Smile&#8217; warped aluminium casing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maciverse.com\/install-os-x-snow-leopard-from-usb-flash-drive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">boring<\/a> instructions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to install Snow Leopard on your laptop when your DVD player won&#8217;t read the disk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65,35,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fluffy-life-hacks","category-fluffy-tech-tips","category-random-mix",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fluffytech.co.uk\/fluff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}